Gunnar E. Carlsson CURRICULUM VITAE. Birthdate: August 22, 1952 Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden EDUCATION

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1 Gunnar E. Carlsson CURRICULUM VITAE Birthdate: August 22, 1952 Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden EDUCATION B.A. Harvard University 1973 Ph.D. Stanford University 1976 POSITION Assistant Programmer Univ. of California, San Francisco (Summers) L. E. Dickson Instructor Univ. of Chicago Assistant Professor Univ. of California, San Diego Associate Professor Univ. of California, San Diego Professor Univ. of California, San Diego Visiting Assoc. Professor Princeton University Professor Princeton University Professor Stanford University MEMBERSHIPS 1973 American Mathematical Society 1982 Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 1986 Member, Organizing committee, International Symposium on Algebraic Topology, Arcata California 1989 Member, Organizing Committee, year long program in Algebraic Topology, MSRI, Berkeley, California Member of Organizing Committee for Symposium on Topology, Geometry, and Algebra: Interactions and New Directions. Held at Stanford University, August, Organizer, Workshop in Equivariant Homotopy Theory, held at Stanford University, 2001 Co-organizer, Conference on Algebraic Topological Methods in Computer Science, Stanford University Member, Board of Trustees, American Institute of Mathematics Co-organizer, Banff International Research Station meeting on high dimensional manifold theory, held March Co-organizer, Workshop on Dessins d enfants and motivic homotopy theory, held at the American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, April 23-26, Co-organizer, Conference on Algebraic Topological Methods in Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, July Co-organizer, Hot Topics Workshop on high dimensional data analysis, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California Co-organizer, Semester program in applications of algebraic topology, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California (to take place fall 2006) Co-organizer, Thematic program on geometric applications of homotopy theory, Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada (to take place Spring 2007) COMMITTEES AND ADMINISTRATIVE WORK

2 Muir College Executive Committee Univ. of California, San Diego 1980 Teaching Asst. Dev. Advisory Committee Univ. of California, San Diego Graduate Admission Committee Univ. of California, San Diego Teaching Assistant Training Supervisor Univ. of California, San Diego Graduate Advisor Univ. of California, San Diego Mathematics Department Council Univ. of California, San Diego Director of Graduate Studies Dept. of Mathematics, Stanford University Chairman Dept. of Mathematics, Stanford University Member, Appointments Committee Dept. of Mathematics, Stanford University Member, Committee on Undergraduate Studies Stanford University Member, Dean's Committee on Curriculum Stanford University Member, Academic Senate Stanford University Member, Dean s Advisory Committee on A&P Stanford University Steering Committee for the Academic Senate Stanford University COMMUNITY SERVICE Superintendents Advisory Committee Palo Alto Unified School District K-12 Standards Committee Palo Alto Unified School District 1996 Middle School Textbook Committee Palo Alto Unified School District Consultant to the Texas State Board of Education, concerning Content Standards in Mathematics Consultant to the California State Board of Education, concerning Content Standards in K-12 Mathematics Member of a Content Review Panel for K-8 mathematics materials, for the California State Board of Education 1999 Supervision and development of a Staff development project for K-12 teachers, August, 1999, Thacher School, Ojai, California National Science Panel on Topology grant funding Member, Texas Instruments California Advisory Board on K-12 education AWARDS & GRANTS HELD NSF Grants (Summers) Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship Jan '83/Aug '83 Naval Oceans Systems Center Grant (NOSC), Algebraic theory for Systolic Array Processors 1999 Grant for support of Conference on Topology, Geometry, and Algebra: Interactions and New Directions., NSF 2000 Grant for support of Workshop on Equivariant Homotopy Theory, NSF 2001 Grant for support of Conference on Algebraic Topological Methods in Computer Science, NSF Focused Research Group Grant in Mathematical Sciences, joint with P. Diaconis, S. Holmes, J. Tenenbaum, NSF CARGO grant, joint with L. Guibas (Computer Science) and T.Dey (Computer Science, Ohio State), NSF 2004 Research Group Grant in Mathematical Sciences, join with P.Diaconis, S. Holmes, and L. Guibas DARPA Seedling award, Algebraic topology in the study of high dimensional data sets and shape recognition DARPA grant entitled Topological methods for the analysis of high dimensional data sets and 3D object recognition, w. various collaborators at Stanford and at Duke, Rice, and University of Minnesota. EDITORSHIPS Jan Jan 1998 Editor of Matematische Zeitschrift

3 November January July 1996 July 2006 August Editor of K-theory Editor of Mathematical Research Letters Editor of Geometry and Topology Editor of Homology, Homotopy, and Applications VISITING POSITIONS Sept-Dec 1989 Jan.-June 1990 May-June, 1991 Aug.-Dec., 2006 Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Visiting Professor, University of California, San Diego Ordway Visiting Professor, University of Minnesota Member, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute INVITED LECTURES March Conference on Geometric Applications on Homotopy Theory, Northwestern Univ. Computations of Odd L-Groups, Plenary lecture. January Midwest Topology Seminar, Northwestern Univ. The Witt Group of a 2-adic Group Ring. June Conference on Algebraic Topology, Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario. Equivariant Embeddings in Homotopy Spheres. August Symposium on Algebraic Topology, Aarhus Univ., Denmark. Desuspension in the Symmetric L- groups Colloquium - University of California, San Diego. June Conference on L-Theory, Bielfeld, W. Germany. Wu Invariants of Hermitian forms. October Western Ontario Topology Seminar, McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ontario. Finite Group Actions on Products of Spheres. March Conference on Homotopy Theory, Northwestern Univ. Some Remarks on Segal's Burnside Ring Conjecture, Plenary lecture. June Annual Summer Meeting, Canadian Mathematical Society, Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Ontario. Segal's Burnside Ring Conjecture. August Symposium on Algebraic Topology, Aarhus Univ., Denmark. Segal's Burnside Ring Conjecture. August Conference on Transformation Groups, Oberwolfach, W. Germany. On the Homology of Finite Free (Z/2) n Complexes Colloquium - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Colloquium - Fordham University Colloquium - Lehigh University. January American Mathematics Society Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky. Invited Address, Segal's Burnside Ring Conjecture. May Midwest Topology Seminar, Detroit, Michigan. June Series of two invited lectures. A.M.S. Conference on Brown-Gitler Spectra, Arcata, California. July Series of three invited lectures. London Mathematical Society Symposium on Homotopy Theory, Durham, England Numerous lectures, Southern California Topology Seminar Occasional lectures, Berkeley-Stanford Topology Seminar. March West Coast Topology Symposium. August minute invited address, International Congress of Mathematicians, Berkeley.

4 October Upstate New York Topology Seminar, Syracuse University. February Colloquium Lecture, Dartmouth University. May Cornell Topology Festival, Cornell University. January Colloquium Lecture, Yale University. March Colloquium Lecture, Johns Hopkins University. March Series of two plenary lectures, International Symposium on Algebraic Topology, Northwestern University. May Series of three invited lectures, University of Notre Dame. June Invited Lecture, Symposium on Homotopy Theory, Cortona, Italy. May Invited Lecture, MSRI Workshop on Algebraic K-Theory, Berkeley, CA. Nov Invited Lecture, Joint AMA-MAA Meeting. Dec Colloquium, Sacramento State University. July Invited Lecture, Adams Memorial Symposium, Manchester, England,. Feb Colloquium, State University of New York, Stony Brook. Dec Invited Lecture, NATO Workshop on Algebraic K-Theory, Lake Louise, Alberta. May Invited Lecture, Cascades Topology Seminar. Sept Invited Lecture, International Symposium on Homotopy Theory, Gargnano, Italy. May Cornell Topology Festival, Cornell University. April - May Participant, Program in Algebraic Topology, Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm, Sweden. May Colloquium Lecture, University of Edinburgh. May Colloquium Lecture, Cambridge University. May Colloquium Lecture, University of Warwick. May Colloquium Lecture, University of Chicago. May Invited Lecture, Southwest Topology Conference, Albuquerque, NM. October Plenary Speaker, Conference in honor of W. C. Hsiang, Princeton, NJ. July Invited Lecture, AMS summer conference on group cohomology, Seattle, Washington. August Invited Lecture, AMS summer conference on Algebraic K-theory, Seattle, Washington. August Lecture, Internation Symposium on Topology and Geometry, Aarhus, Denmark. October 1999 Invited Lecture, Indtitute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey August Plenary Lecture, Conference on Topology, Geometry, and Algebra, Stanford University February 2000 Invited Lecture, Midwest Topology Seminar, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois July Plenary Lecture, Conference on Arithmetic Geometry and K-theory, Toulouse, France. August Lecture, Workshop on Equivariant Homotopy Theory, Stanford University February Joint Harvard-MIT-Brandes Colloquium Lecture, Cambridge, Mass. July Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Algebraic Topology, Isle of Skye, U.K. Octoberr Colloquium Lecture, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario October Invited Lecture, Ontario Topology Seminar, London, Ontario November Lecture, Workshop on Computational Methods in Topology, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Sacramento, California

5 November, Invited Lecture, Conference on Recent Developments in Mathematics, Harvard University January, Invited Lecture, National Science Foundation February, Colloquium Lecture, University of Virginia February, Colloquium Lecture, University of Wisconsin. June, Invited Lecture, International Conference on Topology and Geometry, Aarhus University, Denmark September, Two Invited Lectures, program on axiomatic, enriched and motivic homotopy theory, Newton Institute, Cambridge, England January, 2003 Seminar talk, Commutative algebra seminar, U.C. Berkeley. May, Two invited talks, University of Chicago. August 2003 Plenary lecture, International Conference on Transformation Groups in honor of Soren Illman, Helsinki, Finland. September lecture course, month long program on homotopy theory, University of Western Ontario. September 2003 Invited lecture, Conference on homotopy theory, University of Western Ontario. October, 2003 Lecture, special session on structured homotopy theory, AMS meeting, Boulder, Colorado. November, 2003 Colloquium Lecture, University of Oregon. November, 2003 Invited Lecture, Cascades Topology Conference. January, 2004 Commutative algebra seminar, U.C. Berkeley February, 2004 Colloquium Lecture, U. C. San Diego. February, 2004 Seminar talk, U.C. San Diego. April, Lecture, SIAM meeting on Imaging science, Workshop on High dimensional point cloud data. May, 2004 Invited Lecture, Great Lakes K-theory Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign May, 2004 Topology Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign July, 2004 Invited Lecture, International Meeting on Geometry, Topology, and Combinatorics, Stockholm, Sweden July, 2004 Plenary talk, Conference on Algebraic Topological Methods in Computer Science, London, Ontario. October, 2004 Invited lecture, International Symposium on Algebraic K-theory, University of Montreal. November, 2004 Topology/Geometry Seminar, University of Texas, Austin. December, 2004 Two lectures, Hot Topics Seminar on high dimensional data analysis, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California. August 2005 Invited Lecture, Conference on Combinatorics and Simplicial Complexes, San Francisco State University August 2005 Invited Lecture, Symposium on Structured Ring Spectra, Rosendal, Norway October 2005 Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Princeton University October 2005 Colloquium Lecture, University of California, Santa Cruz February Distinguished Lecture, University of Ottawa April 2006 Member, Mittag-Leffler Institute, Djursholm, Sweden April 2006 Colloquium Lecture, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden May 2006 Cornell Topology Festival, 2 lectures, Ithaca, N.Y. July 2006 Lecture Series for Graduate Students, Mississippi State University September 2006 Lecture, MSRI Introductory Workshop on Applications of Algebraic Topology

6 September 2006 Lecture, MSRI Workshop on Applications of Algebraic Topology in Science and Engineering October 2006 Lecture, MSRI Workshop on Applications of Algebraic Topology in Combinatorics and Computer Science October 2006 Workshop on High Dimensional Data, Harvard University December 2006 Workshop on Image Processing, University of Bergen, Norway. January 2007 Colloquium, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona April 2007 Invited Lecture, PIMS, Vancouver B.C. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION A.1. Publications 1. Operations in connective K-theory and associated cohomology theories, Dissertation, Stanford, An Adams-type spectral sequence for change of rings, Houston Journal of Mathematics, 4 (1978). 3. (with R. J. Milgram) Torsion Witt rings for orders and finite groups, Proceedings of Symposium on Algebraic Topology, Evanston, Springer Lecture Notes # (with R. J. Milgram) The structure of odd L-groups, Proceedings of Conference on Algebraic Topology, Waterloo, Springer Lecture Notes #741, Desuspension in the symmetric L-groups, Proceedings of Conference on Algebraic Topology, Aarhus, Springer Lecture Notes #763, (1978). 6. (with R. J. Milgram) Some exact sequences in the theory of Hermitian forms, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 18 (1980), On the Witt group of a 2-adic group ring, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 31, No. 123 (1980). 8. On the stable splitting of bo bo and torsion operations in connective K-theory, Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 87, No. 2 (1980). 9. On singular loci of finite group actions on spheres and Poincare duality spaces, preprint. 10. Wu invariants of Hermitan forms, Journal of Algebra, 65, No. 1, (1980). 11. Non-existence of free actions of elementary abelian groups on products of spheres, American Journal of Mathematics, 102 (1980). 12. Some restrictions on finite groups acting freely on (S n ) k, Trans. American Mathematical Society, 264, No. 2 (1981). 13. A counterexample to a conjecture of Steenrod, Inventiones Mathematicae, 64, (1981) pp On the rank of abelian groups acting freely on (S n ) k, Inventiones Mathematicae, 69, (1982), pp (with R. J. Milgram) The oriented odd L-groups of finite groups, preprint. 16. On G. B. Segal's Burnside ring conjecture for (Z/2) k, Topology, 22, No. 1, 1983, pp On the homology of finite free (Z/2) n -complexes, Inventiones Mathematicae, 74, 1983, pp A simplicial group construction for balanced products, Topology, 23, No. 1, 1984, pp Equivariant stable homotopy and Segal's Burnside ring conjecture, Annals of Mathematics, 120, 1984, pp (with J. E. Cruthirds, H. B. Sexton, and C. G. Wright) Interconnection networks based on a generalization of the cube connected cycles, I.E.E.E. Transactions on Computers, C-34, No. 8, 1985, pp

7 21. Free (Z/2) k -actions and a problem in commutative algebra, Proceedings of Symposium in Transformation groups, Poznan, Poland, 1985, Segal's Burnside ring conjecture and related problems in topology, Proceedings of the 1986 International Congress of Mathematicians, Berkeley, CA, 1987, pp Equivariant stable homotopy and Sullivan's conjecture, Inventiones Mathematicae, 103, Fasc. 3, 1991, pp (with R. L. Cohen, T. Goodwillie, and W-C Hsiang) The free loop space and the algebraic K-theory of spaces, K-theory, 1, No. 1, 1987, pp Free (Z/2) 3 -actions on finite complexes, Algebraic Topology, K-theory, Annals of Mathematical Studies #113, 1987, edited by W. Browder. 26. (with R. L. Cohen) The cyclic groups and the free loop space, Comm. Mathematica Helvetici, 62, 1987, pp Segal's Burnside ring conjecture and homotopy limit problem, in Homotopy Theory, edited by E. Rees and J. D. S. Jones, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes #117, 1987, pp Equivariant stable homotopy and the descent problem in unstable Algebraic K-theory, American Journal of Mathematics, 113, 1991, pp Dense symmetric networks from linear groups and codes, joint with L. Campbell, V. Faber, M. Fellows, M. Langston, J. Moore, A. Mullhaupt, and H. Sexton, I.E.E.E. Transactions on Computers, 41, No. 2, 1992 pp On the homotopy fixed point problem for free loop spaces and other function complexes, K-theory, 4, 1991, pp Bounded K-theory and the assembly map in algebraic K-theory I, appears in Norikov Conjectures, Index Theorems, and Rigidity, Proceedings of 1993 Oberivolfact Conference on the Novikov Conjectures, edited by S. Ferry, A. Ranicki and J. Rosenberg, London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes #227, Cambridge University Press, pp Homotopy fixed points in the algebraic K-theory of certain infinite discrete groups, appears in Advances in Homotopy Theory, edited by S. M. Salamon, B. Steer, and W. A. Sutherland, London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series, 139, pp Algebraic K-theory of simply connected spaces I, the p-complete case, with M.Bökstedt, R. Cohen, J. Goodwillie, W-C Hsiang, F. Waldhausen, Duke Math. Journal, Vol. 84, No. 3, Sept. 1996, pp Proceedings of the Arcata Symposium on Algebraic Topology (1986), Springer Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1370, 1989, edited with R. Cohen, H. Miller, and D. Ravenel. 35. A survey of equivariant stable homotopy theory, Topology, 31, No. 1, 1992, pp Proper homotopy theory and transfers for infinite groups, Algebraic Topology and its Applications, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, 27, 1993, Springer Verlag. 37. Controlled algebra and the Novikov conjectures for K and L-theory, joint with E. K. Pedersen, Topology, Vol. 34. No. 3, 1993, pp On the algebraic K-theory of infinite product categories, K-theory, 9, 1995, pp Continuously controlled algebraic K-theory of spaces and the Novikov conjecture, joint with E. K. Pedersen and W. Vogell, Math. Annalen (310), 1998, No. 1, Cech homology and the Novikov conjecture for K and L-theory, joint with E. K. Pedersen, Math. Scand 82, 1998, no. 1, Stable homotopy and iterated loop spaces, joint with R. J. Milgram, Handbook of Algebraic Topology, edited by I. M. James, Elsevier Sciences, Inverse limits as constraint problems, Technical report, Kestrel Institute, Controlled Algebraic G-theory, joint with B. Goldfarb, submitted to Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra.

8 44. A Mathematics Source Book for Elementary and Middle School Teachers: Key Concepts, Teaching Tips, and Learning Pitfalls, with C. Barnett, D. Coggins, B. Honig, and D. Kraven. Bay Area Mathematics Task Force Report, supported by the University-School Support for Education Reform. 45. Topics in Algebra, joint with R.L.Cohen, "Admissisble Control and Power Control for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks via Random Graphs", joint with M. Chiang, International Symposium of Information Theory, June, 2001, IEEE. 47. "LORA: Robust and Simple Routing Algorithms for Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", joint with M. Chiang, to appear, Conference Proceedings, Globecom Topology, Geometry, and Algebra: Interactions and New Directions, proceeding of a conference on Algebraic Topology in Honor or R.J. Milgram, contemporary Mathematics, vol 279, American Mathematical Society,2001 (edited with A. Adem and R.L. Cohen) 49. "On Jim Milgram's mathematical work", appears in Topology, Geometry, and Algebra: Interactions and New Directions, proceedings of a conference on Algebraic Topology in Honor of R.J. Milgram, Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 279, American Mathematical Society, 2001, "Recent Developments in Higher Algebraic K-theory", Proceedings of Conference on Recent Developments in Mathematics at Harvard University, International Press, "A geometric approach to sparse matrix problems", joint with V. de Silva, Advances in Applied Mathematics, An algebraic topological method for feature identification. joint with E. Carlsson and V. de Silva, International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications., Structured stable homotopy theory and the descent problem in the algebraic K-theory of fields, (preprint) Persistence barcodes for curve point cloud data, with A. Collins, L. Guibas, and A. Zomorodian, Symposium on Point Based Graphics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-4, Persistence barcodes for shapes, with A. Collins, L. Guibas, and A. Zomorodian. Symposium on Geometry Processing, Nice, France, July 8-10, Persistence barcodes for curve point cloud data, with A. Collins, L. Guibas, and A. Zomorodian, Computers and Graphics, The What, Where, and Why of Mathematics: a Handbook for Teachers, joint with R.L.Cohen, "Computing persistent homology", joint with A. Zomorodian, Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) Brooklyn, N.Y., June 9-11, Computing persistent homology, joint with A. Zomorodian, Journal of Discrete and Computational Geometry, Topological approximation by small simplicial complexes, joint with V. de Silva. Submitted to Computational Geometry, Topological estimation using witness complexes, joint with V. de Silva, Symposium on Point Based Graphics, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2-4, The integral K-theoretic Novikov conjecture for groups with finite asymptotic dimension, joint with B. Goldfarb, Inventiones Mathematicae, On homological coherence of discrete groups, joint with B. Goldfarb, Journal of Algebra, Derived completions in homotopy theory, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, 2007 (arxiv ). 65. Localized homology, joint with A. Zomorodian, Shape Modeling International 2007, Lyon, France

9 66. The theory of multidimensional persistence, joint with A. Zomorodian, Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) Gyeongju, South Korea, June 6-8, Persistence barcodes for shapes, joint with A.Zomorodian, A. Collins, and L.J. Guibas, International Journal of Shape Modeling, Volume 11, no. 2, December On the local behavior of spaces of natural images,, joint with T. Ishkhanov, V. de Silva, and A. Zomorodian, International Journal of Computer Vision, Higher topological cyclic homology, joint with M. Brun and Bjørn Dundas, submitted (arxiv: ). 70. Topological structure of population activity in visual cortex, joint with T. Ishkanov, F.Memoli, D. Ringach, G. Sapiro, and G. Singh, submitted. 71. Topological methods for the analsis of high fimensional data sets and 3D object recognition, joint with G. Singh and F. Memoli, Point Bases Graphics 2007, Prague, September Persistent clustering and a theorem of J.Kleinberg, joint with F. Memoli, submittted. 73. On the non-linear statistics of range image patches, joint with H. Adams, submitted.